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Taskbar and excel problem Thread last updated on 2004-07-09 00:28:22

Posted by member 173706 on 2004-06-30 02:10:06

Maybe someone would give me an idea on how to solve this problem.
I use a lot of excel documents and have excel set to show new books on the taskbar, it works fine on explorer making a new button for every new book, But on LS it only shows one button for all books,and that is stopping me from ussing LS wich I like very much.
I have tried Taskbar3(latest versions) and xtaskbar and both have the problem.
Any Ideas on how i can resolve this.
Well Thankyou very much.

Edit: Another problem is that !PopupRecentDocuments updates only when I open the docs on explorer, when I open the docs on LS recent documents do not update.
So I can see the recent docs but they dont update when openned on LS.
Im ussing the latest build on XP Pro and 98Se (Taskbar problem on both OS, Recents Problem only on XP Pro).

Posted by member 31 on 2004-06-30 11:05:29 link

Does tasks.dll correctly show them?

Posted by member 173706 on 2004-07-01 02:36:20 link

Thanks for the response,Nope, tasks.dll didnt doit.(I use it for my fake titlebar, showing only active) but made a test theme to try and didnt work.

Posted by member 173706 on 2004-07-02 20:36:47 link

Any Ideas on the excel issue? nevermind the Recent docs one ,got the answer on the other post.
I hope the excel prob has a solution.

Posted by member 173706 on 2004-07-04 02:18:37 link

Anybody can think on a work around for this excel issue.
Im going nuts with this,I would really appreciate help on this matter.
Thankyou.

Posted by member 31 on 2004-07-06 18:26:24 link

I'll be looking into this (I've replicated the problem)

Posted by member 173706 on 2004-07-08 02:38:32 link

Great, thanks a lot.
I check the forum every day, And news on that regard will be appreciated.
Thanks again.

Posted by member 31 on 2004-07-08 11:33:47 link

What I've found out so far is that Excel needs Explorer to be running as the shell when Excel starts. After Excel is running, it is possible to shutdown Explorer and load Litestep, and then Litestep correctly shows the Excel books. It doesn't appear to be a task module problem, but rather a specific Explorer dependancy that Excel has. I will continue to look for a solution.

Posted by member 173706 on 2004-07-09 00:28:22 link

Allright,I tell you since I starting ussing litestep I just hate exploder so I wouldnt whant to fire the .... everytime.
But its good news that youre closing on the problem. And whatever the solution comes to be even if it involves editing regristry or anything I'll follow those instructions.
So best luck.
Thanks again.